The Wyoming law for trespassing states that it is the landowner's job to inform people of trespassing either by local signage or verbally. If there are no "No Tresspassing" signs and you haven't been told you cannot cross the land, you are not in violation of trespassing. But once on the land you are still liable for any damages you incur while on the private property. So leave no trace when using this privilege.

Knowing the above, I suggest do not drive on any roads labeled as private nor labeled as no trespassing on road. However, I have entered these roads when seeking permission from a landowner to further use these roads. Be warned, some greetings will be entirely welcome under these pretenses.

Most of the time the private land near these high points is not posted nor is it fenced, but it may on rare occasions be occupied during Elk Hunting Season, which begins Sept 1.

This information is a public crowdsourcing effort between the Access Fund,
and Mountain Project.You should confirm closures, restrictions, and/or related dates.

Description

The 9000 Venture Series is a description for mountaineering the 14 USGS 7 1/2 min topo map labeled high points in the Laramie Range that are above 9000 feet elevation. While the elevation is considerably less than a Colorado 14, the task of getting to the summit of these is often more difficult because only 2 of the 9000's have trails to the summit. Without existing summit trails the hiker/climber will have to choose his path and attaining the final high point may necessitate some easy climbing. A hiker's GPS that saves waypoints and makes a crum trail is quite useful but these hikes are on your time and energy.

The following list has these 14 topo map labeled points in descending elevation order from Laramie Peak to Leg. A map survey was done for each of the 8 sections of land that surround each of the 9000 series sections for singular high points greater than 9000 feet. The usefulness of these is for hikers that like more navigation and perhaps a loop hike rather than an out and back via the same "path". These optional listed points are described below their respective labeled-numbered points. These optional points can be found on the the 71/2 min series USGS Topos Maps.

Cell phones do not work on all of these summits yet alone in the valleys and canyons below them. None of the canyons in the Laramie Range are steep walled glacial carved canyons and so navigation with a hikers GPS works very well.

The peaks that were already posted are not posted on this page but the links to them are posted. My trips to these places were for locating more rock climbing walls and pinnacles. And my posts here are for disseminating some of these findings i.e. to save rock climbing explorers some time. There are other "peak bagging sites" that may be of some use. See further: peakbagger.com, peakery.com and listsofjohn.com.

12. Leg (The Headquarters National Recreational Trail passes within three hundred feet of this summit) 9055 BM on sec line 30x31 is the only >9000 feet in the south Laramie Range. Some unlabeled points >9000 are elsewhere in sec 30 & sec 31.